Butterfly Patterns: International photographs | RedGage

Colorful Lepidoptera on RedGage: Butterflies and Moths

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The monarch butterfly is common in the northeastern United States. Looking through the images at RedGage reveals hundreds of unique, rare and beautiful species. See a sample of butterfly and moth pictures from an international group of photographers.

"A collection of butterflies and moths from many authors on RedGage, representing butterfly species from all over the world."

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Collecting: 200,000 bugs for ever person on the planet | The Columbian

Bugs in our backyard | The Columbian:

Photo by Troy Wayrynen / The Columbian

Tiger moths have vibrant colors and are common in Clark County.
They like to feed on weedy plants like dandelions.

"Sondergaard’s fascination with bugs ranges far beyond the standard bees and mosquitoes flying through Clark County’s neighborhoods.

His interest helped him get jobs as a technician for the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge, the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Fish and Wildlife. He’s currently unemployed, and is still considered an amateur collector and not an entomologist because he doesn’t work in academia.

“He’s one of the most impressive collectors and amateur naturalists I’ve seen,” Campbell said of Sondergaard. What fascinates Sondergaard most about the tiny — and not so tiny — creatures is that there are just so many of them to learn about and categorize.

“It’s easy to find something new,” he said. “You just grab a net, sweep through the grass and you find all sorts of species that you’ve never seen before.”"

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Butterfly #Collecting Book Review: An Easton Author Tracks the World’s Most Infamous #Butterfly Smuggler

Books: An Easton Author Tracks the World’s Most Infamous Butterfly Smuggler - Fairfield County Weekly:

 

"Jessica Speart's “Winged Obsession,” is a nonfiction thriller. About butterfly collecting. And the baddie is a gay little Japanese man who wears a fanny pack.

Subtitled “The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler,” “Winged Obsession” is an absolutely absorbing tale of one plucky U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent named, amazingly, Ed Newcomer, as he's drawn into the web of Yoshi Kojima, a sociopathic smuggler known for his ability to obtain and distribute rare and endangered butterfly species."

bug collecting - new #bugs in Arkansas: Acanthocephala declivis

Acanthocephala declivis: New bug found in Arkansas - ky3.com:

"Hartshorn said she grew to appreciate the beauty, diversity and vast numbers of insects as well as their importance in nature and interactions with humans. “The world would come to a screeching halt if we didn’t have bugs,” she said."